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Last October, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) unveiled a major installation of sculpture, drawing, and experimental photography by acclaimed modernist Medardo Rosso, revealing the exceptional range of an artist known chiefly for his three-dimensional work. Initially derided by critics, Rosso later achieved renown for his radical approach t...

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by Pamela Silvestri   Staten Island's elusive Fig Fest is back again for its fifth year. As the crowd grew too large for the original venue (the Turtle Fountain at Midland Beach), a private venue has been sought ever since.   The celebration will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 15, starting at 6 p.m. — that's an hour earlier than usual — at...

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by Josh Baines New York, New York. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. The home of the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, and a branch of M&M's World. We've never been but we've heard all about it.   Our friends have told us it's really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer and that you can buy face-sized slices of pizza...

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Enzo Idello is a baker who wants to pitch in the major leagues. To achieve his dream, Enzo must defy his father, who runs the family bakery, and the ghost of his great grandfather, who founded Idello Bakery in Italy in 1829. Will curveballs bring Enzo more fulfillment than cannolis? Or will the love of family and a childhood crush make Enzo feel fu...

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di Riccardo Chioni   Bagno di folla al Consolato Generale nella serata di domenica per lo showman Renzo Arbore, giunto per la presentazione di Umbria Jazz, a conclusione della giornata di festeggiamenti per la festa della Repubblica, evento inserito nel quadro dell'Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti.   Il console generale N...

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by Helen Klein   In a turnaround from prior plans, the Santa Rosalia festival will run for as many days and as many blocks along 18th Avenue as it had previously, but it will be held in the middle of August, instead of the end of the month, which community activists hope will ease problems that have been associated with the long-running even...

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A massive Italian feast will be served in Utica this weekend. Thousands will make the pilgrimage to St. Anthony's church for the 102nd annual feast, all to honor the saints Cosmas and Damian. To feed the thousands, preparations are now in full swing.   People at the feast will be asking St. Cosmos and Damian's for good health. One local Ital...

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The Mondadori, Italy's largest publishing group, has a history, as is the case for almost all large industries, closely linked to the life of one man, in this case the "boy printer" Arnoldo Mondadori who in 1907, when he was still very young, began his career as a publisher in Ostiglia, a small village in the Lombardy countryside.   The expa...

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Internationally acclaimed playwright and drama critic Mario Fratti, best known for the musical Nine and winner of seven Tony awards, will present his publications Twenty-Eight Unpredictable Plays. Unpredictable Plays features 28 Plays, and at least 28 Surprises. Dry, sly, provocative plays presented by the master of unpredictability, Mario Fratti....

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It's hard to do old-school Italian with a straight face nowadays. It's been that way since Manhattan's Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi opened their three odes to Italian-American cuisine: Torrisi Italian Specialties, Carbone, and Parm.   These restaurants dared to admit that, sure, the mid-century Italian joints of our grandparents' generatio...

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